(May 29, 2017 at 9:56 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(May 26, 2017 at 2:20 pm)Caligvla XXI Wrote: "For starters Matthew, Mark and John say Jesus was killed at Golgotha, while Luke says it was Calvary."
You might want to toss this. Golgotha is based on the Hebrew/Aramaic word for skull, while Calvary is based on the Latin word for skull.
Actually there are more "explanations" what Golgotha means, from wiki article:
A number of alternative explanations have been given for the name. It has been suggested that the Aramaic name is actually Gol Goatha, meaning mount of execution, possibly the same location as the Goatha mentioned in a Book of Jeremiah passage, describing the geography of Jerusalem. An alternative explanation is that the location was a place of public execution, and the name refers to abandoned skulls that would be found there, or that the location was near a cemetery, and the name refers to the bones buried there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary
and so on... So why would I settle that it simply means the same word when it can also mean other words (like mount of execution) and not two different places?
The original point you made suggested there was a discrepancy in the gospel accounts. From the same Wikipedia article:
- Mark: And they brought him to the place called Gol'gotha (which means the place of a skull).
- Matthew: And when they came to a place called Gol'gotha (which means the place of a skull).
- Luke: And when they came to the place which is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.
- John: So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Gol'gotha
They all agree that the place name had to do with "skull," three of them associating the meaning with "golgotha," one leaving out the reference to "golgotha."
